RS 20: Work and Organisation

Session 8: The new division of labour and the problems of interest representation,

participation and collective bargaining

Thursday 6th, 13.30 – 15.00, Room M201

Chair: Francesco Garibaldo

1. Dr Vera Vratuša, Belgrade University, Serbia

Privatisation and participation in Serbia since 2003 survey in comparative perspective

Inspiration for this research gave the 2003 representative survey findings indicating the

existence of discrepancy between preferences of relative or absolute majority of respondents

concerning models of privatization and participation in Serbia on the one hand, and related

legislative regulation and praxis on the other (Vratuša, V. 2005: Attitudes Toward Privatization

in Serbia at the End of the Twentieth and the Beginning of the Twenty First Century, Mili,

Anelka, ed., Transformation and Strategies, Institute for Sociological Research, Faculty of

Philosophy, Beograd, http://www.veravratusa.org/strat05privconcl.doc ). The present research

paper will present the relevant primary and secondary data gathered in selected European

countries and Serbia since 2003 through various methods, including participatory action

research, in the attempt to answer the question whether this gap between attitudes toward

privatisation and participation in decision making and real development processes exists in

other European countries as well, and whether the clash between desired and real diminished

or increased in the meantime in Serbia. The main aim of this research is to contribute to the

critical reflection on social relations’ transformation strategy that increases the satisfaction of

needs and democratic participation of the majority of population, instead the profits and power

of the few.